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Article #623415Re: Any implementations of JOSS?
From: Scott Lurndal
Date: Tue, 01 May 2018 19:50
Date: Tue, 01 May 2018 19:50
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John Levine <jo...@taugh.com> writes: >While tidying up my bookshelf I found an old copy of >"Time-Shared Computer Languages" which discussed a bunch >of languages available on-line in 1973. > >One of them was JOSS, first implemented on the vacuum tube Johnniac, >then reimplemented on the PDP-6, and available on the PDP-10 where DEC >called it AID. A cut down version was available on the PDP-8 as >FOCAL. I think it had a lot of influence on Basic, both in that >program lines were numbered and statements started with keywords like >Let. The numerically inclined admired its correctly rounded ten digit >decimal arithmetic, so sqrt(3)*sqrt(3) was 3, not 2.9999999999996. > >Are there any versions of JOSS still around? I suppose I could fire >up a PDP-10 simulator and look for a copy of AID but I was hoping for >something less retro. TSS-8.24 on SIMH has a focal interpreter.
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